Not far from Yellowstone National Park’s northern entrance is where you’ll find Sage Lodge, along the banks of the Yellowstone River in the aptly named Paradise Valley. The style is modern-rustic and the comforts are as plush as the landscape is rugged; there’s no end of opportunity for outdoor adventure, plus a luxe spa and a pair of restaurants serving menus centered around meats and produce sourced from local ranches and farms.

The Rocky Mountain luxury ranch experience doesn’t get much more luxurious than this. The all-inclusive Brush Creek Ranch stands on some 30,000 acres in south-central Wyoming. The range of experiences on offer is a broad one, from tending the ranch’s goats to indulging in a spa treatment or even skiing the ranch’s private slopes. A variety of rooms, suites, and cabins see the homestead’s original buildings transformed into luxury lodgings.

It’s hard to say what’s more notable about the Inn of the Five Graces — the one-of-a-kind setting in a series of restored adobe houses in Santa Fe’s Barrio de Analco, considered the oldest neighborhood in the United States, or the museum-worthy art collection the designer owners acquired over a lifetime of world travels. Rooms feature rustic exposed beams, artisan-crafted textiles, wood-burning fireplaces, and bathrooms lined in colorful mosaic.

The name Montage Big Sky more or less tells the story — the Californian purveyor of lavish high-design resort experiences meets the rugged Rocky Mountain wilderness of southwestern Montana. The 139 rooms and suites are matched with a 10,000-square-foot spa, an 18-hole golf course, and ski-in/ski-out access to the lift system at Big Sky Resort. There’s also a tubing hill, an ice rink, bike, horse, and Nordic trails, and a fly-fishing outfitter.

In the timber-and-stone exteriors of Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch you’ll find echoes of national park lodges and Alpine inns; inside, however, the work of the Mexico City-based designer Simon Hamui is everywhere evident, melding classic luxury with contemporary style. In addition to the ski concierge service, there’s a 21,000-square-foot spa, heated outdoor pool, and access to all manner of outdoor sports, from snowshoeing to fly-fishing to golf.

Founder Mel Zuckerman opened Canyon Ranch Tucson at the tail end of the seventies, seeking to replace the somewhat punitive approach of the health spas of the day with something more positive, more empowering, and more spiritually transformative. Long story short, it worked, and for decades travelers have made the pilgrimage to this site, just outside of Tucson, to chill out, to work out, to dry out, or some combination of the three.

The resort complex at Paws Up Montana comprises an impressive variety of luxury ranch homes, safari-style tents, and cabins. This includes the Green O, a dozen secluded, architecturally daring houses. As for activities, there’s just about anything you can imagine doing in the mountains: fly-fishing, mountain biking, dog sledding, river rafting. It’s a spa resort for guys who are too tough for spa resorts. A wilderness camp for those who demand luxury-hotel comforts.

One of Sedona’s real gems could be the smallest; El Portal is more a guest house than a hotel, much less a massive resort, like so many of its neighbors. It’s only more impressive for this fact, an intimate twelve-room hotel that shows a fastidious attention to detail, a meticulous Arts and Crafts replica, with antique-reproduction doors handmade by the owner and antique furnishings and fittings everywhere.

Boynton Canyon, part of the Yavapai Tribe’s ancestral land, is one of the famous Sedona vortexes — swirling centers of energy associated with healing. Enchantment Resort delivers on both inspiration and relaxation, from the dramatic pool scene with surrounding red rock formations reflected in its aquamarine water, to the cozy casitas and hacienda suites, built with adobe and outfitted in modern southwestern décor.

The exterior of Caldera House is just traditional enough to blend harmoniously with its Teton Village surroundings. It’s in the interiors, however, free from the prying eye of the town’s design board, that are most impressive, turning the rustic textures of wood, stone, and leather into something refined, contemporary, and faultlessly stylish. This full-on “alpine club” comes with a members’ lounge, expansive spa and fitness facilities, and a gear shop offering all you need for the lift literall

Alpine Falls Ranch takes the classic mountain-lodge aesthetic that its name implies and simply executes it with commitment, with verve, and with a rare tastefulness. The landscape, after all, is the real star of this show, and the best approach a hotel can take is to complement it rather than distract from it. It’s a four-season destination, fit for skiing, fishing, biking, hiking, horseback riding, and on and on.

Just outside the center of Taos’s historic district, Hotel Willa transforms a 1960s adobe motor lodge into a design-driven retreat with a strong local point of view. Original adobe walls and viga ceilings remain, while rooms feature handwoven textiles, local ceramics, and vintage radios tuned to the town’s KNCE. A partnership with the Paseo Project brings in rotating exhibitions and an artist-in-residence program.

The Rusty Parrot is a longtime Jackson Hole institution, and in its newest incarnation as the Rusty Parrot Lodge & Spa it’s the sort of unpretentiously upscale luxury boutique hotel that the destination demands. It’s still family-owned and -operated, and the service is as personal as ever. But the interiors now blend Rocky Mountain ruggedness with crisp contemporary style, and rooms add high-end comforts like soaking tubs and custom-made Italian linens.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a significant site for geologists, paleontologists, and outdoor enthusiasts; and while scientists are no doubt welcome, it’s to this latter group that Yonder Escalante is pitched. Here, on 22 acres of land just outside the town of Escalante, stand a collection of compact cabins and Airstream trailers, as well as a swimming pool, a bath house, and a central lodge featuring a lounge and general store. There’s even a drive-in cinema.

From Gateway Canyons you won’t be making quick day trips to Denver or Colorado’s major ski resorts. And that’s the point. Here in canyon country you’re much closer to Utah’s mountain-biking and off-roading mecca of Moab than to Aspen or Vail. And, most importantly, you’re immersed in a landscape with plenty to offer locally, from fly fishing to river rafting, from hiking to biking to an all-world equestrian center and classic car museum.